What do Jesus, Moses, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Nelson Mandela, the suffragettes and the abolitionists have in common? They're all liberals!
What do Herod, Pharaoh, King George, slave owners have in common? They're all conservatives!
At least Jesse Jackson says they are. And according to the simplistic, grade-school definitions of liberal (upsetters of the status quo) and conservative (preservers of the status quo), he has a point, sort of. But those terms in the Real World™ are much more complex than what we were taught in grade school, else Jackson would have to admit that Hitler was a liberal as well.
Check out Joe Carter's amusing deconstruction of Jackson's essay. He noticed that by Jackson's reckoning, Washington and Jeffersons were both liberal and conservative.
Rev. Jackson never fails to entertain.
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